Charity Ex-Chief Sentenced

The former executive director of a Brooklyn nonprofit group founded by Assemblyman Vito Lopez was sentenced to one year of probation and was fined $2,500 on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.

Christiana Fisher pleaded guilty in November to one charge of criminal contempt for lying to federal investigators about a large pay raise she received as chief of the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council. Her salary jumped to $659,591 a...